The storage admins where I work have gone DFS mad. But if you're a Mac user, that would just make you plain old mad. That's because as great as DFS is for Windows users on an Active Directory domain, Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard doesn't know what to do with DFS paths.

The rumor is that Lion 10.7 due any day now will finally support DFS but that doesn't help me now. So I created a command line tool to help deal with Active Directory DFS shares from a Mac. Visit the dfstool homepage to download it and try it out.

[crarko adds: I don't have DFS-enabled servers to test the functionality of this with. I installed and ran the tool just fine. I put it in /usr/local/bin for ease of execution.]